 O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words ! I marvel, thy master hath not eaten thee for a word ; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus : thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.  Shakespeare's Legal Acquirements Considered - Seite 73von John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1859 - 117 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ved Mehta - 1998 - 442 Seiten
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 | Mark William Roche - 1998 - 470 Seiten
...cleverness, not a means for communication. Mote comments in an aside: "They [Holofernes and Nathaniel] have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps" (Vi36— 37). Dull's malapropisms evidence reduction on a slightly lower level: the dull-witted wants... | |
 | Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor - 2000 - 436 Seiten
...dominant spectacle of the play, the mouth a site to be seen. Mocking the scholars. Moth notes that "they have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps," and Costard responds, "O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath... | |
 | Janette Dillon - 2000 - 212 Seiten
...words and then their speakers as loose scraps (Moth is speaking of Armado and Holofernes): MOTH. They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. COSTARD. O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee... | |
 | Bruce Hayes, Susan Curtiss, Anna Szabolcsi, Tim Stowell, Edward Stabler, Dominique Sportiche, Hilda Koopman, Patricia Keating, Pamela Munro, Nina Hyams, Donca Steriade - 2001 - 760 Seiten
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 | Geoffrey Hughes - 2000 - 452 Seiten
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 | Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 Seiten
...learning, suggests a Pageant of the Nine Worthies. If, in Mote's mot juste, Don Armado and Holofernes 'have been at a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps' (5.1.36-7), Holofernes surely has the fuller sack. On the selection of afternoon as the time for the... | |
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